Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets

Ilias Alami is a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of the political economy of money and finance, development and international capital flows, the geographies of global finance and financialisation, state capitalism, and race/class/coloniality. He has published peer-reviewed research articles in Geoforum, New Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Review of African Political Economy, and Development and Change. Prior to joining Maastricht University, he was a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. He also held visiting positions at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo and the University of Johannesburg.

Introduction: Emerging markets in a world awash with liquidity Part one: Theory, History, and Geography Chapter 1: Managing cross-border finance: key theoretical debates and policy prescriptions Chapter 2: The politics of managing cross-border finance in emerging markets Chapter 3: Conceptualising cross-border finance management Chapter 4: The specificity of cross-border finance management in emerging markets Part Two: Case Studies Chapter 5: Capitalist development and cross-border finance in Brazil Chapter 6: Capitalist development and cross-border finance in South Africa Chapter 7: Class relations and post-crisis financial vulnerability in Brazil and South Africa Chapter 8: The uneven formulation of cross-border financial policies in Brazil and South Africa Part Three: Towards a Unified Theory Chapter 9: Continuity, change, and diversity in cross-border finance management Chapter 10: Postcolonial landscapes of cross-border finance management in emerging markets Conclusion: Money-power in ‘Third World countries with First World financial systems’